Kemp, who first criticized federal officials in the months leading to November’s presidential election over what he said were outsized alarms related to election security, took to his Facebook page after the announcement and slammed the whole idea:

Today, the Department of Homeland Security designated election systems as critical infrastructure. This provocative but predictable decision moves the federal government one step closer to controlling the elections process. I am completely opposed to this blatant overreach and will continue to fight to keep election systems under the control of state government where it belongs.

The federal move, which Johnson first floated before the election, aims to provide more federal help for state and local governments to keep their election systems safe from cyber attacks or tampering.

In that instance, Homeland Security officials claimed a federal contractor based in Georgia used an agency computer to perform routine background checks of job applicants and that there was no malicious intent in the checks.